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When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Jean Harlow
You
Lie
Down
Dogs
Up
Get
Fleas
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Marian Wright Edelman
You
Injustice
Dog
Nation
Enough
Biting
Uncomfortable
Make
Committed
Just
Biggest
Transform
Against
Flea
Fleas
Strategically
Even
Need
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert
Work
Better
Criticism
White
Rush
More
Like
Attracts
Jump
Fleas
Who
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
William Butler Yeats
Dog
Praised
His
Fleas
Ever
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
Ernie Pyle
Alone
You
Will
Long
Enough
Bath
Without
Leave
Go
Fleas
Even
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?
Steven Pinker
Miserable
Living
Hungry
Dry
Heaven
Warm
Fleas
Why
I'll tell you one big misconception. Cops never say 'Freeze!' It might be misinterpreted. They might think you were, like, ordering fries. Or that you had fleas.
Gregory Smith
You
Big
Think
Say
Tell
Misconception
Never
Had
Misinterpreted
Like
Freeze
Were
Fries
Ordering
Might
Fleas
Cops
A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.
Steven Weber
Culture
Lie
Fear
Become
Down
Corporate
Case
Dogs
Controversy
Cannot
Fleas
Who
Media
Grown
Mongrel
Utterly
Fat
People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees!
Tove Jansson
Life
Time
Natural
People
Dog
Will
Animals
Garbage
Tree
Dig
Trees
Secret
Biting
Rant
All Night
Rave
Stuff
Empty
Overlook
Up
Same
Rolling
Same Time
Again
Bury
Burying
Natural Life
Fleas
Themselves
Then
Barking
Rot
Night
Bones
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Government
Management
Young
Difficult
Worlds
Channels
Corporations
Complex
TV
Lies
Join
Between
Hotels
Like
Leave
Governance
Thankless
Difference
Banks
Wherein
Newspapers
Fleas
Should
Whole
Bright
Why
Ever
Things
Two